Bent County Correctional Facility

The Bent County Correctional Facility is a private medium-security prison for men located in Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado. The facility is owned and operated by CoreCivic under contract with the Colorado Department of Corrections and houses Colorado inmates.

CoreCivic has run the facility since 1996, and it has an official capacity of 1466 inmates. It was Colorado's first private prison.